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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: September 1, 2026, The Increased Burden Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. The new burden for compliance in the age of AI. (Forbes)
  2. How agentic AI is reshaping financial crime compliance. (AML Intelligence)
  3. ChatGPT says it didn’t steal Apple employees; rather, Apple has ‘poor offboarding.’ (WSJ)
  4. ChatGPT faces tougher safety issues in the EU. (FT)
  5. Banks are rethinking legacy SW costs to fund AI. (Asian Banking & Finance)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Compliance and AI

Compliance and AI: Governance First: How Enterprises Deploy Agentic AI Safely with Nikunj Bajaj

What is the intersection of AI and compliance? What about machine learning? Are you using ChatGPT? These questions are just three of the many we will explore in this cutting-edge podcast series, Compliance and AI, hosted by Tom Fox, the award-winning Voice of Compliance. In this episode, host Tom visits with Nikunj Bajaj, Co-founder & CEO at TrueFoundry, to discuss enterprise agentic AI infrastructure, governance, and hidden costs.

Nikunj Bajaj brings a practical enterprise lens to the rise of agentic AI, shaped by years of working at the intersection of model development and production infrastructure. He argues that enterprise AI is not just a technical challenge but also an organizational one, because federated teams adopting different tools can quickly create sprawl, inconsistent controls, and governance gaps. To address this, he advocates for a unified gateway layer that centralizes observability and control while still allowing teams to build with best-of-breed frameworks, paired with targeted safeguards like auditability, RBAC, guardrails, and the ability to inspect or revert agent actions. Bajaj also stresses that successful enterprise adoption requires disciplined cost management through FinOps, chargebacks, and budget guardrails so companies can move quickly toward ROI without letting agentic systems become a governance risk or a runaway expense.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: August 17, 2026, The Anthropic Valuation Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Maine looking at AI for rural health. (Bangor Daily News)
  2. AI agents moving to workforce in bank compliance. (FinTech Global)
  3. An AI slop detector. (NYT)
  4. What small banks want from AI vendors. (American Banker)
  5. Anthropic valuation and revenue forecast. (Reuters)

For more information on using AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Compliance and AI

Compliance and AI: Deterministic Legal Reasoning, Trust, and Auditability in Compliance Automation with Paul Welter

What is the intersection of AI and compliance? What about machine learning? Are you using ChatGPT? These questions are just three of the many we will explore in this cutting-edge podcast series, Compliance and AI, hosted by Tom Fox, the award-winning Voice of Compliance. Today Tom visits with Paul Welter, a German lawyer and former software engineer who co-founded Bayshore AI after research at Stanford Law School’s Codex on automating legal reasoning.

Welter explains Bayshore’s approach: extracting legal decision logic into deterministic, conventional code for predictable, explainable outcomes, while using large language models to gather scenario facts and handle vague legal terms. They discuss regulation as infrastructure for trust and economic activity and how today’s complexity creates bottlenecks that AI can alleviate by providing legal and compliance advice “in abundance.” Welter describes tailoring assessments to each customer’s policies and risk appetite, embedding them into workflows, and building trust through transparency, second-line control, and auditability for regulators. He highlights automation candidates (e.g., gifts/hospitality, third-party reviews) and advises teams to centralize request intake, measure frequency and effort, and automate iteratively.

Key highlights:

  • Predictable Legal AI
  • Regulation Enables Progress
  • Encoding Policies Not Laws
  • Building Trust in AI
  • Explainability and Audits
  • Agentic AI Use Cases

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: July 14, 2026, The Bank Run in Seconds Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Star Compliance reshapes ELT. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. Agentic compliance issues: AI v. Humans. (Security BLVD)
  3. Meta drops AI photoshopping feature. (TechCrunch)
  4. AI could create new divides in financial services. (ETFStream)
  5. Could AI trigger a bank run in seconds? (Banking Dive)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories

AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories – Week Ending July 3, 2026

Welcome to AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories. A practical weekly roundup of the five most important AI developments affecting banking, insurance, payments, asset management, and fintech. Each Friday, Tom Fox will break down the top stories that matter most through the lenses of compliance, risk management, governance, and business strategy. Designed for compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, and financial services leaders, it goes beyond headlines to explain why each development matters in a highly regulated industry. The result is a concise weekly briefing that helps listeners stay current on AI innovation while asking sharper questions about oversight, accountability, and trust.

This week’s stories include the following:

  1. The future of AI in banking. (TheFinancialBrand)
  2. AI and global bankers. (Reuters)
  3. AI Playbook for financial services. (WEF)
  4. Trusted data in workflow. (Microsoft)
  5. Agentic AI in post-trade workflows. (FinTechFutures)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: June 30, 2026, The Unknown Unknowns Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Next-gen compliance for the AI era. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. The unknown unknowns of using AI at work. (NYT)
  3. BIS sees peril in AI investment boom. (WSJ)
  4. Using Agentic AI to close compliance alerts. (CPAvPracticevAdvisor)
  5. AI offers a bridge between provider, payor, and patient. (Healthcare Finance)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories

AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories – Week Ending June 12, 2026

Welcome to AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories. A practical weekly roundup of the five most important AI developments affecting banking, insurance, payments, asset management, and fintech. Each Friday, Tom Fox will break down the top stories that matter most through the lenses of compliance, risk management, governance, and business strategy. Designed for compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, and financial services leaders, it goes beyond headlines to explain why each development matters in a highly regulated industry. The result is a concise weekly briefing that helps listeners stay current on AI innovation while asking sharper questions about oversight, accountability, and trust.

This week’s stories include the following:

  1. AMLA as a single financial crimes tool in the EU.(FinTechGlobal)
  2. Is your bank ready for Agentic AI? (OpenTextBlog)
  3. Will AI help women in financial services? (FinTechMagazine)
  4. The next changes in banking will not be about tech. (TheFinancialBrand)
  5. Bank CEOs brush off AI cash optimization. (BankingDive)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: June 9, 2026, The OpenAI Files to go Public Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. AI-ready compliance for reg tech. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. AI agents under antitrust scrutiny. (NYT)
  3. Procurement and AI governance. (Observer.com)
  4. Is your bank ready for Agentic AI? (OpenTextBlog)
  5. Transparency is key for AI use in healthcare. (Ohio.Edu)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: Data Defensibility: Enterprise Agentic AI: Governance, Auditability, and the AI Gateway Layer with Nikunj Bajaj

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Nikunj Bajaj, Co-founder & CEO at TrueFoundry, about enterprise agentic AI infrastructure, governance, and hidden costs most organizations are not accounting for.

Nikunj describes TrueFoundry’s platform as a single control plane for enterprises to build, ship, and govern agentic AI applications, inspired by Meta’s internal ML stack, which he says is about a decade ahead of the rest of the industry. He argues enterprises over-focus on model and tool selection when problem definition and effective use are the real constraints. On governance, he identifies two failure modes: avoiding meaningful use cases entirely to sidestep governance risk, or trying to solve all governance problems up front and never reaching ROI. Successful teams implement application-specific controls iteratively, starting with a few high-value use cases rather than hundreds of low-value ones. He highlights that model inference accounts for only about 20% of total generative AI spend, with the majority of spend concentrated in infrastructure, engineering, and debugging, creating cost-allocation and budget-control challenges for compliance teams. For auditability, he argues that an agent without full decision traces is “a liability with an API key,” and walks through how end-to-end tracing enables audit readiness, faster debugging, and proactive attack detection. He closes by advocating centralized control via a unified AI gateway while enabling federated development and tailoring guardrails to whether your exposure surface is external or internal.

Key highlights:

  • Stop Chasing Tools
  • Governance vs Speed
  • Hidden AI Costs
  • Agent Auditability
  • Board Level Priorities

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